Combined counter check-book and directory



N M del. H. B. BUTTERFIELD.

COMBINED COUNTER CHECK BOOK AND DIRECTORY. No. 448,207.

Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

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HARMAN B. BUTTERFIELD, OF TORONTO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO GEO. BUTTERFIELD, OF OCONTO, WISCONSIN.

COMBINED COUNTER CHECK-BOOK AND DIRECTORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,207, dated March 17, 1891.

Application filed August 14, 1889. Serial No. 320,674. (No model.) Patented in Canada October 13, 1886, No. 25,114.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARMAN BENJAMIN BUTTERFIELD, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Toronto, in the county of York and Province of Ontario, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Counter Check-Books and Directories, (for which Letters Patent No. 25,114 of the Dominion of Canada were granted to me on the 13th day of October, 1886;) and I do hereby declare ,the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to that class of devices known as counter check-books. These books are made up of a number of blanks or sheets secured together in any suitable manner. The blanks consist of a stub, through which the fastenings are passed and which remain in the book, the duplicate, which is an extension of the stub, the dividing-line being indicated by a series of perforations, which facilitate separation from the stub, and the original, which is an extension of the duplicate, the dividing-line being a series of perforations, which also indicate the line for folding the original upon the duplicate. A loose sheet of carbon-paper is used to transfer what is written upon the original to the duplicate by interposing said sheet between the original and duplicate before the original is written upon. Heretofore the backs have been left blank and to that extent wasted, as they could be made to contain matter more or less useful.

The object of my invention is to utilize these blank backs, and that object is accomplished by printing upon the backs of said blanks useful information. The preferred matter to be placed thereon is an advertisingdirectory of the wholesale merchants and manufacturers and others for the use of retail merchants and others.

The invention therefore consists of a combined directory and copying-book, all as will hereinafter be described in the specification and pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective of one form of book, and Fig. 2 a top plan of the same.

A represents the cover of the book; A, the stubs, which are secured together by suitable fastening; A the duplicate, having a perforated dividing-line a; and A the original, which is folded upon the duplicate and having a perforated dividing-line, upon which the original is folded upon the duplicate. The preferred matter to be placed upon the backs of the original and duplicates are advertisements of wholesale merchants, manufacturers, and others. Those who wish to reach the retailers should have their advertisements printed on the back of the duplicafe, and those advertising to retailers and their customers should have their advertisements on the back of the original. The preferred form is to place each class of advertisers under one head. For example, wholesale dry goods merchants or manufacturers would be placed upon the back of part of the checks, wholesale hardware merchants or manufacturers under another head, and so on through the different arts. As these different classes will be bound in onebook,some means for indieating where any special class will be found must be provided. This can be done in various ways. My preferred way is to have upon the cover a key B to the contents, and to have bound at intervals through the book a series of thin index-cards B of various col.- ors, a distinct color for every one of the different classes of advertisers, so that by (So nsulting the index on the cover the userof the book can instantly turn to the classification desired.

The index-cards preferably project outside of the edge of the book, and are so cut that every color will be distinguished from the top of the book. By this means the user can put his finger on any desired color and open the book at the classification that that indicates. It is desired, for example, to open the book at Hardware. Red is the color forhardware as indicated by the key. The user would open the book at the point where the red indeX-card is placed.

The variations in the combinations are innumerable, and I therefore do not limit myself to any special color for any special class, as I propose to use them interchangeably. What I claim as new is p In a counter check book, the combination of the cover having the key, the counterchecks having a directory on their backs, and index-cards of distinct colors bound in the books with said checks, and the colors of said no cards corresponding to the colors indicated,

and the. printed subject-matter under each color corresponding to the matter indicated by the key.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARMAN B. BUTTERFIELD.

Witnesses:

W. C. PALIN, M. E. GREGG. 

